The Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have issued complaints about some of the jokes in the Oscars telecast, though it’s worth remembering that jokes about religion aren’t new at the Oscars.

An anti-Semitism watchdog has provoked a storm by including a prominent German journalist in a list of leading anti-Semites. His defenders insist criticism of Israel does not equate with hatred of Jews.

January 9, 2013, Wednesday

Although a German court has decided that a wanted Nazi death camp doctor died 20 years ago, other elderly war criminals from that era are still on the run and Nazi-hunters have not given up hope of bringing them to justice.